Various members of the AishDas community maintain blogs. Including:
- Aspaqlaria
- Rabbi Yosef Gavriel Bechhoffer
- Rabbi Yaakov Feldman‘s classes:
- Modern Uberdox by Neil Harris
Recent posts from these blogs:
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How should we feel about seemingly permanent mutav sheyihiyu shogegin (e.g. allowing rhythmic table drumming on shabbat according to some authorities.) Thoughts? Bsorot Tovot Joel Rich [...]
Rabbi X touched on something that I have thought about a lot over the years which is, is it possible that someone is given a test that the best result [...]
On Wed, Feb 12, 2025 at 05:46:29AM +0200, Joel Rich via Avodah wrote: > 3.Also, anything on why tosfot (realize different authors) sometimes says > vteima, mihu, im tomar etc? [...]
A congregant of mine has asked me why the word "Vayishma" at the beginning of Parshas Yisro has the gershayim trope. It seems a rare situation and I have not [...]
On Sun, Feb 16, 2025 at 10:08?PM Danny Schoemann wrote: > > 2. I never claimed he converted. I wrote that his Wikipedia biography was > full of references to [...]
R' Simon Montagu responded > > Astaghfirullah! > > > You are quoting from Paul Fagius, the Christian translator of the Tishbi > into Latin, not from Eliyahu Bahur himself, [...]
On Sun, Feb 16, 2025 at 5:42PM Micha Berger wrote: >> 1. The parallel justice system is not described anywhere, not in the >> written Torah and not in the [...]
On Sun, Feb 16, 2025 at 2:49?PM Danny Schoemann via Avodah < avodah at lists.aishdas.org> wrote: > Hmmm... who is the fellow? so you turn pages to the postscript > [...]
Blogs
- YGB - יג"ב
- Aspaqlaria
- Rabbi Yaakov Feldman
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- Yosef Gavriel Bechhofer
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4tV84nvhoA?si=dL6uAZhDcp0-sANJ]A BHP Productions Video on the Parasha for Parashas Mishpatim [...]
- Yosef Gavriel Bechhofer
Yosef Gavriel Bechhofer is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.Topic: Inner Space by Rabbi Aryeh KaplanTime: Thursdays 10:00 PM Eastern Time To Continue Every week on ThursdaysFirst Shiur:[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XU9131NNMO8?si=yntdUWV5yRsOYMST]https://youtu.be/XU9131NNMO8Join the [...]
- Yosef Gavriel Bechhofer
Rischa D'Araisa Season 10 Episode 21:נהמת הגאוןA Talmudic Reading of the Transcript of Rav Dov Landau shlita against the Medinahhttps://listen.jewishpodcasts.fm/yeshivaofnewark/97531 [...]
- Yosef Gavriel Bechhofer
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/artificial-intelligence-chatbot-manners-65a4edf9?st=cyEfyN&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalinkThe article follows my comments.I think a Ba'al Mussar would say it is for sure not OK. Just as we are supposed to have Hakoras HaTov to inanimate objects. However, [...]
- Yosef Gavriel Bechhofer
Rischa D'Araisa Season 10 Episode 20:Mourning theLast American Chief Rabbi:Elizabeth'sRav Elazar Mayer Teitz zt"lhttps://listen.jewishpodcasts.fm/yeshivaofnewark/97226Also listen to another Yeshiva of Newark podcast:Rav Elazar Mayer Teitz zt"l:Guardian of the Mesorah, Ohaiv YisroelA conversation [...]
- Yosef Gavriel Bechhofer
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBw-MNDjMPo?si=ohJACSY2BF-7JyGT]https://hebrewbooks.org/51288Links to subsequent shiurim in this series will appear in the comments to this post. [...]
- Yosef Gavriel Bechhofer
Yosef Gavriel Bechhoferis inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.Topic: Sha'arei Ramchal: Klalei Has'chalas HaChochmoTime: Feb 11, 2025 10:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada) Join Zoom Meetinghttps://us04web.zoom.us/j/72436955267?pwd=DX62waXEyaf8MFU3tsT2pwkPrTRh1F.1Meeting ID: 724 [...]
- Yosef Gavriel Bechhofer
Tuesday, we begin the second cycle of theArukh HaShulchan Yomihttps://www.aishdas.org/ahs-yomi/Feb. 11, 2025, 13 Shvat 5785Monday is the final day of the first cycle, which will bring the playlist at https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXhYlGVtIOa90yH1vcNYptMf5d3OEdQHl [...]
- Yosef Gavriel Bechhofer
Rischa D'Araisa Season 10 Episode 19:Yakeer Lanu Ephraim:Remembering Rav Ephraim Greenblatt zt"lon his 11th Yartzheithttps://listen.jewishpodcasts.fm/yeshivaofnewark/96797 [...]
- Yosef Gavriel Bechhofer
Rischa D'Araisa Season 10 Episode 18:Opposition, Betrayal and Hatred:Reacting to the Hostage Prisoner Swap and Trump's First Week Backhttps://listen.jewishpodcasts.fm/yeshivaofnewark/96527 [...]
- Yosef Gavriel Bechhofer
A Slice of Chicago Torah HistorySiyum of the Cong. Bnei Ruven of Chicago Daf Yomi Shiur at the end of the 1990-1997 cycle. This is a conversion from the original videotape. The actual [...]
- Yosef Gavriel Bechhofer
A historic occasion. The first ever siyum onDaf Yomi Yerushalmiin the English languageThe culmination of the audio series uploaded to the playlist at https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXhYlGVtIOa8KYeCVztC0GWRtvc2s2jR3. For most of its existence (1997-2001), the shiur [...]
- Yosef Gavriel Bechhofer
When we begin the second cycle of theArukh HaShulchan Yomi on Feb. 11, 2025, 13 Shvat 5785, we will b'ezras Hashem also begin the first supplemental cycle of the entire Arukh HaShulchan!Reb Micha [...]
- Yosef Gavriel Bechhofer
Rischa D'Araisa Season 10 Episode 16:He'oros on Doctor Gra"Ch:Discussing the Reflections of Rabbi Dr. Haym Soloveitchik shlitahttps://listen.jewishpodcasts.fm/yeshivaofnewark/96327 [...]
Zohar Al Pi Pshat Day 224. 25a-b: The Erev Rav in Our Day (An Overview and Some Initial Elaboration)
- Yosef Gavriel Bechhofer
I felt this segment of our Daily Zohar learning on the Erev Rav in Our Day and Age was worth showcasing. You can find the full playlist at https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXhYlGVtIOa-qaY0hZAKAJJng975mJs7-[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5iax8pd8mx8?si=bmSv3RQAFmubGUvD]Make sure [...]
- Yosef Gavriel Bechhofer
Rischa D'Araisa Season 10 Episode 16:Trials of Teves:-1- Mourning the Close of the Prophetic Era-2-Reflecting on the Closures of The Solomon Schechter Day Schoolshttps://listen.jewishpodcasts.fm/yeshivaofnewark/96031 [...]
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Rav Dovid Lifshitz zt”l (whose 31st yahrzeit is today) often spoke about the connection between shaleim as wholeness, and that of another conjugation, “shalom“, peace. Shalom is not simply a cessation of violence. That [...]
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Parashas Behar is a list of mitzvos. The first section is all about shemittah and yovel. A family’s ancestral land cannot be sold into perpetuity. Instead, if someone is forced [...]
- Micha Berger
This week I’d like to discuss three seemingly unrelated questions about the words of the tephillah: The focus of Shabbos Mussaf davening is the paragraph that begins “Tiqanta Shabbos…” What [...]
- Micha Berger
Here’s my theory about the origin of this minhag. My point here is not really about advocating for the minhag. I just feel a need to push back when people [...]
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והיה רגיל להוכיח אותי על שראה שאינני משתתף בצערא דאחרינא. וכה היה דברו אלי תמיד שזה כל האדם. לא לעצמו נברא רק להועיל לאחריני ככל אשר ימצא בכחו לעשות. [My [...]
- Rabbi Seth Mandel PhD zt"l
Micha’s note: The following was a post written to the Mesorah email list by Rabbi Dr. Seth Mandel zt”l, a rebbe-chaver of mine (more: a rebbe who insisted on treating [...]
- Micha Berger
(I put these thoughts together for a reply for my daughter Gavi, who pointed me to a medrash that “everyone in her neighborhood” were talking about, but I then was [...]
- Micha Berger
“Poteach et Yadekha“, oil on canvasHaim Masliach, 2021 A comment by Ilana Elzafun* brought this Seforno to my attention. This week’s parashah (Lekh Likha), Bereishis 16:13, describes Hagar’s prayer to [...]
- Micha Berger
Dear R Dr Broyde (Cc: Avodah), Over Shabbos, I read your article about getting ChatGPT to discuss whether a kohein in a same-sex marriage may go up to duchen. I [...]
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Nephesh Hachaim 1:13 1. T The things we say can also link celestial worlds, rectify this one, and interconnect with the upper worlds, as we’ll now see. After all, we’re [...]
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Da’at Tevunot 3:7 (¶ 118 [middle]) 1. We’d do well to take something into consideration, Ramchal adds here. It’s that just because something or someone is imperfect doesn’t mean [...]
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The Way of G-d 2:6:4 1. G-d allowed for a prosecutor in His court, famously known as satan 1. His role is to argue against the accused, which them enables [...]
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Nephesh Hachaim 1:12 1. R. Chaim already spoke 1 of the fact that we could only link celestial worlds, rectify this one, and interconnect with those upper worlds after we’d [...]
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Da’at Tevunot 3:6 (¶ 118 [beginning]) 1. Ramchal reiterates here 1 that wrong is a created entity 2 that was only designed to last for as long as G-d wanted [...]
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The Way of G-d 2:6:3 1. Given the above, the fact is that G-d doesn’t judge the world according to His foreknowledge but rather according to the way He wants [...]
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Nephesh Hachaim 1:11 1. Following up on the thought offered in the last chapter that despite our being connected to physicality we’re nevertheless superior to angels, R’ Chaim now [...]
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Da’at Tevunot 3:5 (¶s 116 [end] – 117) 1. Ramchal says that he’s going to expand upon things he’d said above 1 and reveal things that are “deep” about [...]
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The Way of G-d 2:6:2 1. G-d appears in each Sanhedrin and court, influences it, and sees to it that justice is served 1. Now, in some instances [...]
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Nephesh Hachaim 1:10 1. Given all of the above concerning our makeup and capacities, it’s reasonable to wonder whether angels are loftier than we are or we’re loftier than they. [...]
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Da’at Tevunot 3:4 (¶ 116 [beg.]) 1. Ramchal is about to offer something that will serve as a prelude to what’s to follow 1. It’s that even though G-d [...]
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Derech Hashem 2:6:1 In the course of His interactions with the world 1, G-d arranged it so that phenomena that affect both the things that humankind brings about 2 and [...]
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Nephesh Hachaim 1:9 1. Following through on the discussion of the previous chapter, R’ Chaim contrasts the situation of the generation that dwelt in the Sinai Desert 1 with that [...]
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Da’at Tevunot 3:3 (¶’s 103- 115) 1. It seems logical, doesn’t it, that goodness would be a product of something that emanates goodness while wrongfulness would be a product of [...]
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Da’atTevunot 3:2 (# 98 – 102) 1. Ramchal starts to explain the role of wrong and injustice in the world with a proposition derived from Rambam1. It’s that when G-d [...]
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Nephesh Hachaim 1:8 1. R’ Chaim offers a rather complex discussion here about the positioning of the Cherubs in the Tabernacle and Holy Temple in order to illustrate his point [...]
- Neil Harris
The website 18FORTY has a fantastic and thoughtful multimedia post on OTD that is worth watching, reading, and listening to. If you are reading this then you know I don’t [...]
- Neil Harris
Spoiler, there isn’t much substance to I what have to say. Also, I am spoiling the end of the Skywalker saga. After reading an excellent essay by Rabbi Harry Maryles [...]
- Neil Harris
I checked my recent writing history today and the last legit post of mine was really 3.5 years ago. For some that’s a long chunk of time. In that time [...]
- Neil Harris
My wife’s comment on Simchas Torah pretty much summed it up, “I feel like this is the biggest tease for you.” You see, my mom a”h was niftar right before [...]
- Neil Harris
When today comes around I usually think about things my father missed since he has been gone. I decided that this year I’ll attempt to list a number of things [...]
- Neil Harris
Walking out of shul, the morning after Yom Kippur, a follow early Sunday morning riser casually said to me, “Back to normal, right?” I was taken off guard (and also [...]
- Neil Harris
I have started this post about 2 dozen times over the past 3 years and I never seem to get more than about 300 words written about why I stopped [...]
- Neil Harris
I want to share something that Rav Efraim Twerski said at his Shabbos HaGadol drasha. After starting off with 10 questions Rav Twerski said over an amazing Torah from Rav [...]
- Neil Harris
So, tonight’s the 6th yahrtzeit for my dad, Avraham ben Zorach a”h (Al, of blessed memory). Like everyone else that has lost a parent I lit my 24 hour yahrzeit [...]
- Neil Harris
“WARMED BY THE FIRE OF THE AISH KODESH– Torah from the Hilulas of Reb Kalonymus Kalman Shapira of Piaseczna” by Rav Moshe Weinberger and adapted by Binyomin Wolf is more [...]